Several months ago, a professor and I spoke about our online learning management system based on Moodle. She's been what I would call an average user, posting readings in her courses. She and I talked about a few of the ways she could make her course less of a dead end and more of an outlet or starting-off point. We agreed to meet a little closer to when she would be setting up her course.
We finally met today. It was great! I showed her how she could use typewith.me to have her students workshop their papers. I showed her how they could all securely edit and annotate a 10 year old document with current research in Google docs. We embedded links to research article databases, links to youtube, hulu, Netflix and our library's film collection, together with a forum, so students can find films that are examples of what they learn in class. We even embedded a youtube video clip in the course page!
To top off the work, I said I would look for ways her students could add films to her netflix queue and if they could all contribute videos to a youtube channel, to better use youtube.com/leanback. Alas, it looks like the only way to allow others to add videos to either of these queues is to share a username and password, and we all know that's not really an option.
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